LXC’s 1.0, Thrift opened again, WhatsApp serving and more – Snippets

LXC goes 1.0: Linux Containers, LXC, is now at version 1.0, a major milestone which also brings together and completes a lot of things that have been working their way through the Linux kernel, like support for unprivileged containers, long term stuff like a stable API – this’ll be supported for five years, bindings for Lua and Python3 (and Go and Ruby out-of-tree support), backing storage support for directories, btrfs, zfs and more, cloning, snapshotting… and you may wonder “Hey, doesn’t Docker do many of these things” and yes it does, so it’ll be interesting to watch how things all work out. More details at the news post and check out Stephane Graber’s 10 part blog series on LXC 1.0 which is packed full of useful stuff.

Thrift double opened: Facebook brought Thrift(PDF) to the world in 2007 via Apache Thrift and many people found the network/data serialisation framework well handy. Thing is though that Facebook went and forked their own internal version of Thrift as they filled out the features and ramped up performance, something that took major rengineering over time. Now the company has announced fbthrift, available on Facebook’s Github repo, now open sourced under the same Apache 2.0 licence Apache Thrift is under.